XeroxCool

@XeroxCool@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My recent experiences with big budget AAA after years of avoidance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have time to be rushed like that. If anyone needs me between now and January 3rd, I’ll be parked in the deserts of Far Cry 2 at night with my buggy ignoring whatever petty need you have to admire the dark serenity and distant zebra yelps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He’ll probably be mad, he might try to kill her. The odds of violence after social disagreements are slightly worse for women so most try to avoid being the 1 in 1 million today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone crams to the front to get there faster?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s pretty common to turn an obvious statement into a question to make a point to the person asking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or he’s under the belief all women live to serve men cute little fascinations in their mundane lives. That they exist to smile, sound angelic, giggle, and put a hand on their arms in normal conversation. Based on an attraction thing, but not necessarily targeted at OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need a new Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Came to say the same. I’m not sure how much my location plays a role, but B&H is my go-to for many electronics, Best Buy is a backup, and Target is up there too. I can pre-order BB and Tgt as well, giving me a few stores to choose from locally. The physical stores need to compete with Amazon to survive, so they are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need a new Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon sources are equally hard to verify. The only difference is Amazon has a little more customer satisfaction power (by returns to a main warehouse) than ebay (now warehouses but still favors the customer). There’s continuously new ways to get counterfeit product sold on Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TW: suicide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anecdotal: my uncle put the pistol in his mouth and missed the kill shot. Instead, as I understand it (I was young and I’m not asking), it clipped his brain stem. It disabled most of his bodily function and they had to install a feeding tube due to mouth damage. He spent 2 months in the hospital before finally passing. He had a fucked up bout with cancer and couldn’t take it anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I see Mexican pesos as $ inside the country as well and either MXN or MX$ when talking to the US branch. 1USD = about 20 MX$. I’m seeing it at $700 USD on sale which would track at about 14k MXN but not sure who else has a similar conversion rate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This weird AI-generated engagement bait⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I beleive you’ve been baited into engagement. You may now kiss subscribe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If we lived in a dream where housing was somehow always provided, sure. But we don’t. So what to all the people who don’t have savings for a down payment do if the only option is to buy? Not live anywhere?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the difference between profiting from stocks or profiting from rent? Either way, I’m increasing my spending power

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I live in the green part⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d expect a county map to more appropriately show the trend. Coastal cities can steamroll stats for a state with vastly disproportional representation. I would expect cities to have lower obesity rates due to increased travel by walking while deep rural counties to have higher rates due to driving everywhere, including on your own property. Perhaps it’s not California and New York that’s doing the right thing, but rather LA and NYC doing the heavy lifting. A county map could also pull in variation correlated to ethnicity of people (genetics, imported cultural norms) and ethnicity/variety of food available, too (can you get fresh fare or is it all McDonald’s?). I would expect DC to be more in line with other large metro counties.

  Basically the same issues with the electoral college. States are big and not necessarily a good representation of human statistics. Counties may not be granular enough, but I expect it to be an improvement. I’m not seeing date marked results past 2008.

  I have no relevant comments for Colorado, I don’t get it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does an international porn site like Pornhub take accents into account with their algorithm? Does an Australian watching Pornhub porn tend to get more porn with Australian accents than an American?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience, changing location changes results. The site will still have an American flair to it, but it had a different group of results when I traveled. I confirmed it later with a VPN. You would think some specific searches would always give the same results but, unfortunately, this is one of the sites that chooses to show related content (to create an illusion of overwhelmingly vast content while snowballing highly-rated content) instead of a more functional search for your exact request. I will also note that language didn’t have much to do with it. I’m guessing tags are translated so using a foreign word still brings you to the same category. Testing a mix of my language, their language, and adding nationalities to the search did not affect results nearly as much as being in the country (or setting my VPN there).

  So while I don’t think it’s smart enough to look for an accent, I do expect the content to have more with the accent from local creators delivered in searches by way of regional preference over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This game is intentionally designed to not be 100%able. It contains “missable content” and is part of its style

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead internet theory⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A meme is a recurring pop-culture action, phrase, or image. Text-overlaid pictures are a category of meme format with sub-categories of meme topics.

  Anyway, the parent comment probably meant text-overlaid pictures about 90s topics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are $70 AAA games slashing prices so drastically?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a new title coming? My car feed has been featuring a real build of the Most Wanted (2005) M3 GTR recently from BMW. I see franchise sales often when a new entry is coming out. I don’t see any announcements though, so maybe it’s just because it’s rated so poorly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why people litter in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s another true half statement the middle management refuses to complete. “Nobody wants to work anymore for the wages offered for these types of jobs”. Same old story as middle management accepting “the customer is always right” (and entitling shitty customers) without finishing it with “in terms of market trends”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then its facing the wrong way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why some people put anime girl pic to their bio?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Men have been using sexy bikini pic women in the bios long before lemmy. Look at any hobby forum like bodybuilding, car repair, guns, whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Florida is a conservative Christian state"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People will buy the house for sale. The country made it clear that half of the population is happy with one of the sides. Reds want to move out of blue states all the same. So yes, a down payment and a moving rental are a magnitude of order apart, but relocating still introduces huge expenses. A 600 mile trip with a 15’ truck and car trailer is about $1,000 (it’s the mileage rate that gets you). Hotels if needed, road food, security down payments, and gas are the easy ones to point out. Then there’s the added stress and costs of scoping out your destination, finding a suitable place, not being employed during the transition, losing your current social networks, and pulling it off solo. My point is that “just move” isn’t feasible to many of the people most affected by the predicted changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Florida is a conservative Christian state"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re talking about stress, sure, a renter can relocate more easily than a home owner. Stress isn’t worth dollars, though. A homeowner is still much more likely to have the financial ability to relocate. If renters had spare cash of a substantial amount, don’t you think they’d put it towards owning?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Florida is a conservative Christian state"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they want states to decide on issues they’re losing federally but still let the fed decide things if they’re winning. There is no consistency, just temporary workarounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the increase in early/mail-in voting make exit polls less accurate?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It likely skews data in conservative states, but likely not by much. At least in 2020, mail-in voting was presented as the greatest boogeyman to ever threaten the GOP that week. That pushed conservative voters to vote in person in conservative states and make a big show about how much more reliable and traceable it was. Democrats already trusted the mail-in option. Conservatives in my blue area were not as polarized by this threat, in my observation, and still used the mail-in option. I imagine they knew they’d be overrun in the electoral vote so it didn’t matter if the popular vote was accurate or not.

  This time around, I’m out of the Reddit loop and I’m not subjected to Fox News every day, so I’m not as in touch with the vibe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did binders used to be called tablets?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s when OP realized that’s no 67-year-old woman, it’s the god damn 6,700-year-old Loch Ness monster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If a German reads 24-richard-wilhelm-theodore to an English guy, he’d write down 24RVT if going by the sound, 24RWT if knowing German pronounces the W with a V sound. This is _exactly_why the NATO alphabet is standardized and swapping things around “in an emergency” isn’t permissible. There are so many variances in pronunciations between languages like this. Since you’re writing in English, watch what happens if you hear someone use Spanish and French words like “Javier Habanero Ennui Allo”. An English speaker might know the words, or might write down HOOO. And then there’s regional differences like Spain with some hard Cs or THs instead of soft C or Mexico with some indigenous Xs that sound like CH instead of H. Not to mention the typical English pronunciation of Uniform starts with a Y sound (some groups say oo-nee-form). And it’s not xylophone in every language, so why not write down a Z?

  That’s why they developed one, singular group of words for the alphabet. It’s not perfect, but it’s the group that was picked.

  P is for Pterodactyl. C as in Czar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any, any takeaways at all from the next 4 years that's about to happen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tariffs. I worked for a truck equipment company in 2017 when Trump implemented 10% on Chinese steel and 25% on aluminum. My customers just about unanimously voted for Trump. It was pretty amazing to explain I was selling them the same exact equipment made from the same exact Chinese metal, but it now cost more for them to buy. China didn’t give a fuck, China sold the same amount of metal it did as before and it certainly didn’t pay the tariff - that is a US-side payment. That’s how tariffs work.

  And no, ignoring the part where American production would be too expensive, we don’t even have the processing capacity here to fire up the mills. It’s not coming back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On a lighter note: Why do people still buy fast food?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of this thread is overlooking familiarity, consistency. Aside from regional/international differences, the mcdouble you order at home is gonna be exactly as the same as the mcdouble ordered 400 miles away. Your usual will be there. Many people aren’t gonna take a chance on Jeff’s Cafe on the road. Jeff’s Cafe doesn’t spend a billion dollars on ads to tell you they still have the same thing you ate a decade ago. People don’t want to spend as much time and effort as it takes to read Jeff’s menu, decide what sounds good, and then see if it matches their expectation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is Trump going to do to social security since he is now going to be president? Just wondering because my mom gets SS and she does not want me to support here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  710 pages into this mandate and they decide they don’t have room to talk about SS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What percentage of lead gets washed off the fingers of a typical human after handling lead solder?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just sharing actual information to someone who sounds uninformed. But go ahead and don’t give a fuck, because I don’t have any extras to donate to you anymore